Naughty Nurse Outfit

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Lister: God, I went out with a lot of nurses, didn't I? Kryten: I don't believe those are authentic uniforms, sir. Note the astonishing brevity of those hemlines. I believe all those girls are impostors, pretending to belong to the medical profession for some nefarious purpose as yet unknown.

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A sexy but impractical nurse outfit that plays to an apparently widespread fetish for nurses. It is far more Stripperific than the loose-fitting scrubs nurses of either gender wear these days, and which are more like baggy pyjamas.note Although of course there's some appeal to that outfit as well. Most of the time, these costumes are worn by women who aren't nurses, but sometimes they pop up on actual nurses in material that's heavy on Fanservice or just written by someone who's apparently never seen a real nurse. Red-and-white stripes are not uncommon, referring to the outfits that gave hospital volunteers the nickname "candy stripers"; otherwise, the outfit is likely to be pure white.

Actual nurses tend to hate this trope, at least in part because they are often the target of unwanted sexual advances on a daily or near-daily basis while working a highly stressful job.

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It is, however, something of a Dead Unicorn Trope. While at one point nurses did (and in some countries, still do) wear dresses or skirts as part of their uniforms, the hems were never more than an inch or two above the knee, at most. Nor did they show Absolute Cleavage. An overly-sexy outfit (besides being impractical) would have been seen as unprofessional, and would have caused them to lose credibility with patients and/or their families.

Misa wears a nurse's outfit as a disguise in Death Note. Of course, it's a cute one.

Dominion Tank Police: Buaku and his sidekicks break into a hospital in order to destroy some sensitive information. They probably would have been less suspicious if Buaku weren't wearing an improvised arm cast large enough to hold an SMG, and if the two "paramedics" wheeling him in weren't dressed as Night Nurses. There's possibly a bit of Fridge Brilliance on that one; the Puma Sisters were sexbots and strippers before becoming criminals. They may have simply grabbed the nurse outfits from their own wardrobe and been ditzy enough to assume that that was what nurses actually wore.

After bringing Kai to her office, in chapter 16, Ms. Aki changes into a pair of nylons with garter-belts and a thong, instead of her normal uniform. Then proceeds to mount him in the '69' position to treat his injuries.

And in the 66.5 omake chapter, Usui dreams of being a hospital director with Himegami as his secretary, dressed in a fetish style nurse's uniform.

In one episode of Nanaka 6/17, on the way to check in on her ill childhood friend/love interest, Nanaka encounters her fanboy friend, who convinces her to borrow a nurse's outfit from the local hospital. It does not have the intended effect, however. Actually, any effect that might've occurred was sorely hampered by the fact that, due to Laser-Guided Amnesia, said fanboy pal is unaware (but her childhood friend isn't) that 17-year-old Nanaka has the personality and mindset of a 6-year-old.

Note the existence of the hentai anime Night Shift Nurses. It's an actual sub-genre, and you see the costumes often enough even in other hentai.

Considering the type of show Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt is, this comes up at one point. The show even goes into its Art Shift mode it uses for fanservice moments when the Anarchy Sisters dress as nurses.

In the Ranma ½ manga, female-Ranma dresses up as an actual nurse to convince a sickly (and presumably moribund) boy to take the medicine that would save his life. Unfortunately, it only kicks his already blatant fetishes into overdrive.

The Testament of Sister New Devil: Chisato wears a black garter belt with nylons, a skintight miniskirt, and stiletto heels as her standard nurse's attire. But with a body likehers, she'd look "naughty" no matter what she was wearing.

Comic Books

Subverted in one issue of The Ultimates. A sexily dressed nurse brings in breakfast to a hospital bed-ridden Tony Stark, except she's actually a model hired by Tony to brighten up the place.

Boo Cat does this for Tarot in The Shadow Witch part 3. It helps that she happens to own a costume shop.

The trope is also used to disturbing effect in Issue #53. (Link may be considered borderline NSFW.) Shockingly enough, these aren't the discarnate spirits of a bunch of strippers. They are, in fact, a group of nurses — which means that that's what Jim Balent thinks nurses look like.

Subverted by the character Night Nurse in Marvel Comics; she wears a Florence Nightingale-type classic nurse outfit, and only serves to administer actual treatment (or at least, until Doctor Strange: The Oath when she hooked up with the Sorcerer Supreme.) Incidentally, she's also an MD, not a nurse, which makes one wonder if the getup isn't a form of Cosplay after all. (As she explains it, "'Night Nurse' is just catchier than 'Night General Practitioner'.")

Empowered Volume 4 features, in a rare case of gender equality, improbably hot female and male nurses in equally skimpy outfits - mini-skirts for the gals, micro-shorts for the guys.

In Lori Lovecraft: Back to the Garden, Ms. Fanservice Lori finds herself travelling through Voodoo Mansion and opening doors into different realities. As she does so, her clothing changes to match the reality she finds herself in. When she opens the door into her boyfriend's hospital room, she finds herself dressed in a naughty nurse outfit. So are the two 'nurses' who are smothering Allen in kisses.

Fan Works

The Evangelion fic The Visitor has Shinji getting out of an Angel battle blind. While no one is around, Rei comes and... comforts him on the hospital bed without revealing her identity. Possibly subverted as her monologue afterward implies that she had a hand in his condition in the first place.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off has the singing (among other things) telegram somebody sent that poor sick boy down the street. Sadly interrupted when the wrong Bueller answered the door.

"I heard that you were feeling ill Headache, fever and a chill I came to help restore your pluck Cause I'm the nurse who likes to..." [slam]

Subverted in The Dark Knight, except for fetish fuel value. The nurse uniform itself appears to be somewhat more old-fashioned than what actual nurses are shown to be wearing, and wouldn't be half bad modesty-wise, though still sexy, but um, it's kind of on the Joker.

The trope shows up in just about every Carry On movie about the medical profession, starting with Carry On Nurse, featuring a night nurse who is overpowered, and stripped (down to her slip — it was 1959, after all) by the male ward patients.

Elle Driver in Kill Bill wears one of these outfits when she goes to assassinate The Bride.

Played with in Rory O'Shea Was Here. Siobhan dresses as a nurse for a costume party but the costume is fairly modest, though she already has Michael eyeing her anyway.

Mentioned in the Women of the Otherworld novel Haunted. While they are planning how to infiltrate a hospital, Kristof tells his ex-girlfriend Eve that he needs to put her in a nurse's uniform — which turns out to be incredibly skimpy and tight. When Eve starts to change into scrubs, Kristof admits that he wants her to play a patient, and that the nurse's uniform was just self-indulgence and not related to their mission. He also reminds her of a time when he had a cold and she spent the entire weekend in his hotel room nursing him back to health, while wearing an appropriately revealing uniform.

In the episode "My Life in Four Cameras," JD has an extended fantasy of what his life would be like if it were — ironically — more like a sitcom (or as it were, more like a traditional sitcom). In the fantasy shots, Elliot and Carla are wearing sexier versions of their normal scrubs, with ample cleavage.

Earlier still, in the episode "My Interpretation," Turk has a sex dream featuring Elliot in an even more revealing nurse outfit. Ironic, considering that Elliot is a doctor and that Turk is married to an actual nurse.

Farscape: Aeryn Sun is wearing one of these during John Crichton's fantasy sequence in "Won't Get Fooled Again."

"I can find new places to take your temperature."

Sarah Jessica Parker wears one to seduce Big in Sex and the City. It doesn't work.

The TV show Mercy is supposed to be a serious, realistic television show about nurses working in a hospital, but they regularly wear things that Nurses Do Not Wear.

Sarah Walker wears one as a disguise in the "Angel of Death" episode of Chuck.

Subverted in the Friends episode "The One With the Halloween Party", when Chandler thinks Mona came as a 'slutty nurse', she insists she's dressed as a regular nurse.

The Benny Hill Show featured a gag "commercial" for Night Nurse where the ill husband rejected his "Night Nurse"—only to have his wife reveal that she had hired a stripper in nurse costume to cheer him up. Cue the trademark "whaaaaa?" expression.

Doctor in the House played with this in one episode. The main characters are at a strip club when one of the dancers falls ill on stage. They take her to St Swithin's where, out of boredom, she starts helping around the ward. The boys do their best to convince her to give up stripping and become a nurse, and it seems that they succeed. At the end of the episode, she is seen in a nurse's uniform but it's just a new costume for her latest routine at the club.

Robin wore one of these to a Halloween party in How I Met Your Mother. Turns out there was a specific reason - earlier that night she'd made an incredibly embarrassing commercial for adult diapers.

When Angie of The George Lopez Show was feeling insecure about growing older, she traded in her kind of sexy Halloween nurse costume for something that would be at home in a porno (to the point where her bra was arguably covering more than the dress itself).

Faith donned one of these in an episode of Hope & Faith when she was employed as a receptionist at Charlie's work (he's an orthodontist). Charlie was not happy about it because a) he's married to her sister and b) the outfit was incredibly inappropriate.

In the Halloween episode of The Neighbors daughter Amber decides that in order to fit in with the cool kids from school she and her boy neighbor should go as "hot doctor and slutty nurse." Unfortunately the neighbor boy is a Cloudcuckoolander alien and think that he's the one who's supposed to dress as a slutty nurse.

AKB48 members wear semi-transparent nurse uniforms in the MV for "Ambulance".

Worn on the cover and album art of blink-182's album Enema of the State by porn star Janine Lindemulder. This same nurse shows up on the cover to another of their albums (and if memory serves, some of their music videos as well) making it a recurring motif of sorts.

One of the options for the Fulfil Your Fantasy battle royal at 2004's Taboo Tuesday PPV, along with School Girl and French Maid. The School Girls got the most votes. We do get to see the nurse (and maid) outfits in the video game Smackdown vs Raw 2006.

Saluted in the Persona 4 video game, where your Devil social link is a lascivious nurse at your evening part-time job on a hospital's janitorial staff... Only for it to turn out that most of the Social Link is spent witnessing her angst about her life and helping her out of it, like all other S-Links. Although she will "admire your muscles" with the right responses early on.

In a pinup for Sunstone, Ally wears one while Lisa is strapped and struggling on an operating table.

El Goonish Shive ran a sketchbook in which the characters dressed as nurses for an unstated reason with one wearing this. They were wearing the outfits of a stereotypical, sexy, and actual nurse from left to right.

Subverted for laughs during "Goonmanji 2", where four characters play a transformation-themed board game developed by a well-intentioned but naive immortal. Catalina tries to transform into a nurse, and ends up in normal medical scrubs.

Ménage à 3 features such a costume on a stripper (in a club where the girls wear a wide range of costumes) in strip #184 (July 31 2009, NSFW). To give the comic credit, the character Peggy, who is actually a nurse, is shown in completely realistic scrubs when she's on duty (and, being as sexy as any woman in the cast, she looks just fine in them, in a businesslike way). She does wear a sillier outfit on the cover of one print volume, but that doesn't represent anything that happens inside the book.

During the Halloween story arc of Misfile Ash makes a comment about how women use the holiday as an excuse to dress up in sexy costumes. Emily vehemently denies it and says that Ash is just making sexist assumptions. Ash asks Emily what she wore for Halloween last year and Emily reluctantly replies that it was this trope.

One episode has Bender use one of these while on the internet (disguised as a human, not his usual self) in order to take money from people.

The episode "Stench and Stenchability" has Amy in a nurses outfit completely backless and with ass cleavage.

Real Life

The waitresses at the restaurant Heart Attack Grill all dress in Stripperific nurse outfits. Subverted in that they are definitely not real nurses, although everything they serve you will likely put you in the hospital at some point. The effect is augmented by the patron being dressed in a hospital gown before being seated.

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